Density matters? Settlement expansion and land degradation in Peri-urban and rural districts of Italy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106703" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106703</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Density matters? Settlement expansion and land degradation in Peri-urban and rural districts of Italy
Original language description
Being a relatively less known driver of land vulnerability to degradation in Southern Europe, the net impact of urban expansion on land quality depletion requires a comparative investigation in peri-urban and rural districts. An empirical approach based on the Environmentally Sensitive Area Index (ESAI) was illustrated here with the aim at assessing long-term changes in the level of land vulnerability during a time interval that reflects divergent socioeconomic dynamics in Italy, an affected country according with the United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The degree of land vulnerability increased in a spatially heterogeneous manner over the last 50 years thanks to the synergic impact of climate aridity and landscape transformations. At the same time, urbanization shaped the spatial distribution of vulnerable land at both regional and local scale. Urban-rural gradients were at the base of renewed spatial disparities in land vulnerability between Northern Italy (classified as a 'non-vulnerable' region in the National Action Plan to combat desertification) and Southern Italy (classified as a 'highly vulnerable' region). These dynamics reflect the expansion of peri-urban areas towards high-quality, productive soils less vulnerable to degradation. By documenting a complex pattern of soil depletion due to ur-banization in Italy, the present study contributes to a wider knowledge of the intrinsic linkage between peri-urbanization, (un)sustainable development, and desertification risk in advanced economies.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Impact Assessment Review
ISSN
0195-9255
e-ISSN
1873-6432
Volume of the periodical
92
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JAN
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
106703
UT code for WoS article
000723243500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85119337438